Patent attributes
In an approach to failed media channel recovery throttling, responsive to detecting a programming error on an addressable unit during programming of a block stripe, the block stripe is placed on a recovery/data migration queue. An error counter for the addressable unit on which the programming error occurred is incremented. The block stripes from the recovery/data migration queue are built excluding a specific channel containing the addressable unit on which the programming error occurred. Responsive to determining that the queue for the recovery/data migration is empty, building the block stripes resumes using the plurality of channels, where the specific channel containing the addressable unit on which the programming error occurred is included. Responsive to determining that a number of errors on a specific addressable unit exceeds a predetermined threshold based on the error counter for the specific addressable unit, the specific addressable unit is decommissioned.